Accessing posted Json data in php script

Question

I'm using the Requests for PHP library to POST some json data to another PHP script (I'm using Laravel's Response::json method to generate the json output:

public function postIndex()
{
    $input = Input::get();
    $data = Response::json($input);
    $url = 'http://mydomain.com/emails/events';
    $response = Requests::post($url, array('Content-Type' => 'application/json'), $data);
    return $response->status_code;
}

I need the script on the receiving end (http://mydomain.com/emails/events) to decode and process the json, but I'm having a hard time accessing it. I setup a simple test script that emails me the contents of $_POST, but it comes up empty every time.

$post_data = print_r($_POST,true);
mail("[email protected]","post data",$post_data);

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

PHP do not parse Json POST. So you need to get raw post data like this:

$data = file_get_contents("php://input");

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